Interestingly, the characters れ and レ both originate from 礼. (according to 大辞泉@Yahoo!)

I've seen situations before where the normal reading of a kanji is cut short in its occurrence within a name, not conforming to any existing readings of the kanji. The name「れな」 springs to mind. So this could originally have been written with the intention of pronouncing 「礼」 as 「れ」, even though it's "non-standard".

Hyperworm wrote:Interestingly, the characters れ and レ both originate from 礼. (according to 大辞泉@Yahoo!)

I've seen situations before where the normal reading of a kanji is cut short in its occurrence within a name, not conforming to any existing readings of the kanji. The name「れな」 springs to mind. So this could originally have been written with the intention of pronouncing 「礼」 as 「れ」, even though it's "non-standard".

礼 certainly has a nanori reading of れ.

The issue I have with using "non-standard" readings or nanori readings when writing non-Japanese names is that you have to already know what the name is in order to "correctly" read the kanji.

These are a couple of other English names written in kanji that were done by a native Japanese speaker for embroidering on karate belts, 光威多 and 慈恵詩香.

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I found this posting when googling something that's not very clear to me right now.

When you attempt to write a foreign name (or any other word) in ateji, can you actually mix onyomi and kunyomi in the same word? Or the most proper thing to do would be to stick only to onyomi, or only kunyomi, without mixing?

Take my name for example: Marcelo.

I separated it as マル・セ・ロ. So I came up with 丸世露 ... Maru + se + ro

But "Maru" would be the kunyomi reading for 丸, while the other two would be onyomi. So I'm not sure if mixing is actually permitted.

mcoelho wrote:.... When you attempt to write a foreign name (or any other word) in ateji, can you actually mix onyomi and kunyomi in the same word? Or the most proper thing to do would be to stick only to onyomi, or only kunyomi, without mixing?

Take my name for example: Marcelo.

I separated it as マル・セ・ロ. So I came up with 丸世露 ... Maru + se + ro

But "Maru" would be the kunyomi reading for 丸, while the other two would be onyomi. So I'm not sure if mixing is actually permitted. ......

When writing foreign words phonetically using kanji you should strictly speaking use only onyomi (音読み), on (音, オン) meaning "sound". If you decide to use kunyomi you should use all kunyomi.

However, foreign names and loan words are usually written in katakana.

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